Plea won't change Rader's jail routine

Dennis Rader's life in the Sedgwick County Jail won't change just because he has confessed to being the serial killer BTK.

Rader will have the same "liberty benefits" — such as the ability to write and receive mail and make telephone calls — that he had before he pleaded guilty to 10 murders on Monday, Sedgwick County Sheriff Gary Steed said.

"It doesn't mean we're going to send him to a different part of the jail," Steed said. "It has everything to do with his behavior" inside the jail.

Rader, 60, is already under a high level of management and is housed in a "direct pod" with other inmates. An inmate's management classification is constantly re-evaluated, Steed said, based on a number of considerations: likelihood of escape, for instance, or how likely an inmate is to assault inmates, guards and deputies.